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A drawing of the moon illuminating a forest

The Moon
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If there is a circle around the moon, that is a sign it is going to storm. The number of stars you can see within this circle shows how many days distant the storm is. There is some sense in this, in that there would be no circle were the air not hazed with moisture, and the thicker the moisture, of course the fewer the stars that can be seen within the circle—or anywhere else for that matter—and the nearer the storm.

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